Thank you, Donna.
Yes, I don’t know if there is much more that could be done about your friend. I feel that many times it is about the discourse we feed ourselves, or asking ourselves what is it it is important right now.
Plus luck.
I was simply lucky enough my kids were still small. Well, not really small but not yet 16 and 18. Or adults.
Knowing you have people who depend on you helps a real big lot. Plus I had a job (which may have hurt me with school but also gave me the security of knowing that getting fired was almost impossible).
So there were factors against me but also a lot in my favor.

Being on the streets is hard. I think that technically I spent a night of homelessness when I first came to America. But a boss I had then took me to his apartment. But I was 20 something.

I’m assuming your friend is not in their 20s. And it is not only one night. And when in crisis it is hard to truly believe that all these things (degrees, -houses, clothes, cars as status symbols-) are only a mirage. And that we have as much of a right as anyone else to experience the air, the sun, the rain, the songs of birds, ants walking in line in the grass or building empires in the dirt. We all have the right to experience that as anyone else.

Thank you, Donna.
Pablo